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“If reading is boring to you then you might’ve fooled yourself into thinking that reading as a whole is boring. But in reality, it’s just that the books you were reading were boring. Reading is addicting - keep picking up books until you find the ones that you can’t put down.”...

Readers miss out on so much when they read the Hebrew Bible without comprehending that Moses both is and is not Yahweh. Jewish monotheists keep that concept fixed in mind when we read the New Testament and believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the prophet like Moses whom Yahweh himself promised (in...

Yes. Moses is the mediator between Yahweh and the people. Moses, as the duly authorized and appointed agent of Yahweh is sent by Yahweh. He is functioning as Yahweh but isn’t Yahweh himself. In another example (Exodus 7:1), Yahweh himself made Moses Yahweh to Pharaoh.

Thank you. You didn’t identify the translation you’re quoting but it is an example of a translation which I pointed out renders the passage as Moses quoting Yahweh. The phrase that you placed in bold makes that abundantly clear, but that is a translator‘s decision. It isn’t what the Hebrew...

“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which has sent me.” (John 5:30, KJV) It’s unthinkable that Yahweh himself would ever say, “I can of mine own self do nothing.” It’s easily thinkable...

“When he had come into the temple area, the chief priests and the elders of the people approached him as he was teaching and said, ‘By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?’” (Matthew 21:23, NABRE) They asked the right question. What is the answer to...

That’s fine. The point of the OP: Moses speaks as if he himself is Yahweh himself. So does Jesus. Agency is the key to understanding them and to understanding Yahweh.

Trinitarians, binitarians and even many unitarians say that Jesus implies that he is literally claiming to be Yahweh. In order to do that, they have to remove Jesus from the constraints of his own Jewish religion. You will likely remember the video clip I’ve provided of Dr. Witherington (a...

By introducing Jesus into the discussion, we’ve now moved beyond the OP and into Moses typology.

Thank you. No, I’m not at all suggesting that Moses mistakenly believed he was Yahweh. You put it gently when you said that is unlikely. It would have made him a lunatic. ”In Jewish law, a shaliah … (literally ‘emissary’ or ‘messenger’) is a legal agent. In practice, ‘the shaliah for a person...

That’s good and true but it doesn’t address the important point I was making in the OP about agency.

Some translations render it that way, but doing so obscures what was happening. They‘re coddling us.

Moses is saying that he, Moses, is Yahweh. But Moses isn’t telling them / us that he, Moses, is literally Yahweh. Moses wasn’t, and isn’t, Yahweh. Atheists sometimes point to this verse as an example of the Bible containing errors, but this isn’t an error. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and...

“What you truly glory in will be an aroma about you. You may not notice it, but you cannot hide it.” - Michael Reeves

“The Bible is a matchless library of truth.” - C.H. Spurgeon Let’s think for a moment about what we read today. Whatever it was, what can compare with “a matchless library of truth”? You visited somewhere today in your reading. I hope it was good. Did you visit ”a matchless library of truth”...